NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. ' 998 
ice rendered this impracticable. The geology of Ice fjord was carefully 
ing much farther south in Nor way. It was estimated that 2000 or 3000 
head of walrus were hired slaughtered in Spitzbergen by Norwegian 
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Sinking to 21°F. On the 29th of August the “Sofia” entered Liebde 
ay, in Northern rn Spitzbergen. The deep-sea soundings revealed the 
enis fact that ebria ee was connected with Scandinavia idis a 
Submarine bank, having a maximum depth of three hundred fathom 
(in 1827) 81° 6; but Parry, in sledges on the ice, reached 82° 45’. em 
ice to the northward of this was broken, but so closely packed that n 
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9n the 1st of October, but when b vein "o all farther endeavors were 
Put à stop to by a colliston with an ice block, which opened a large leak 
in the vessel’s side. With h great difficulty they regained the land, the 
Water Standing two feet over the cabin floor. The intention of eerte, 
ere was then | abandoned, and the “Sofia” returned to Norw: vide iem 
tific Opinion. 

. Nore N THE “BLOWING” or WHALES.— The celebrated Norwegian 
: Taturalist, M. Sars, was the first, or one of the first, to assert that whales 

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. Posed to this. While Ehren in the North Pacific, and Behring's Sea, 
paid Particular attention to this point. I was very fortunate in seeing 
